# ID this television series

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 26, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-television-series/620058 "2012-04-26T20:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-television-series/620058/1 "2012-04-26T20:35:06Z")

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Ok, I’m going crazy trying to place this scene.

I believe it’s a TV series. Live action, not animated.

The series was NOT sci-fi or fantasy, but something happened that required everyone on the show (all of the regular cast members anyway) to get into some sort of long-term life support/suspended animation capsules. Once everyone was in place, the last person (who I believe was the “bumbling” character of the show) trips on the power cord and everyone’s capsules shut down. Presumably everyone will die because of this.

Did I imagine this scene? What was it from? Was it a finale or just a dream episode of some sort?

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**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-television-series/620058/2 "2012-04-26T20:40:22Z")

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That would be the “Space” episode of NewsRadio. It was a sci-fi parody and Matthew (Andy Dick) performed the power cord trip you speak of.

Edit: Rather, it was a sci-fi parody episode of an otherwise non-sci-fi show.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-television-series/620058/3 "2012-04-26T20:55:03Z")

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> [@Scupper](#):
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> That would be the “Space” episode of NewsRadio. It was a sci-fi parody and Matthew (Andy Dick) performed the power cord trip you speak of.
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> Edit: Rather, it was a sci-fi parody episode of an otherwise non-sci-fi show.

THANK YOU!

In my mind I was remembering it as NewsRadio but my Google-Fu was weak and couldn’t find the episode description anywhere.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-television-series/620058/4 "2012-04-27T00:27:36Z")

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LIFEFORM 1: EXPIRED  
LIFEFORM 2: EXPIRED  
and so on…